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Honore de Balzac Quotes

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Honore de Balzac (2015). “Old Goriot: Classic French Literature”, p.109, 谷月社

Reading brings us unknown friends

Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.6, The Floating Press

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.141, The Floating Press

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

"La Duchesse de Langeais". Essay by Honore de Balzac (1834), published in "Oeuvres completes de H. de Balzac" ("Complete works of Balzac") published by A. Houssiaux (Part II, pp. 111-235), translated by Ellen Marriage, 1855.